0 Gabor Demszky

Gábor Demszky (born 4 August 1952 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian politician, lawyer and sociologist by qualification. Demszky was the Mayor ofBudapest from 1990 to 2010.

As a teenager, Demszky joined an informal Maoist radical group, which criticized the socialist Kádár's government from an ultra-hardliner communist viewpoint. After two years, he lost faith in political left ideas and took interest in libertarian ideology. During the late period of communist regime, Demszky was a leading figure of the then illegal underground democratic opposition to the Kádár-system. His main anti-government activities included the printing and publishing of illegal books, periodicals, newspapers called 'samizdats'. He was a founding member of the SZDSZ party, which he led briefly during the late 1990s, before he resigned the post of party premier in protest over factionary in-fighting. He didn't ask for his membership's renewal in 2010, therefore ceased to be a member. Since he left his office, he is in a set of former mayors who, according to the law on local governments are eligible for state-pensions, he declared he doesn't plan full-time activity in the future.